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Photo parade to unmask mystery fixer

TOM GILMARTIN may be asked to identify from photographs the mystery man whom he claims asked him to pay £5m into an offshore bank account for Fianna Fail.

The wealthy builder, who began his testimony outlining political corruption and bribery to the Mahon planning tribunal last week, has in the past given detailed descriptions of the man whom he claims asked him for the money after a meeting Bertie Ahern and other then cabinet ministers in 1989.

The meeting, which has been either denied or not recalled by Ahern and his Fianna Fail colleagues, will be a contentious flashpoint; Gilmartin does not say that the disputed meeting was corrupt but he puts some of Fianna Fail’s most senior figures at the scene of an alleged bribe.

Tribunal lawyers, in an opening statement last week, said they wanted to identify the “mystery man”. The former builder, who claims to have a